Medicine: Priority Under The Bomb

How can the Army best care for troops wounded in a nuclear attack? In
the ivy-covered Army Institute of Research at Washington's Walter Reed
Medical Center, the grim subject came up for review last week at a
conference on the "Management of Mass Casualties." Present: Army
medical officers, representatives of federal and private health
agencies. The conference consensus: nuclear warfare calls for a new
definition of the old concept of battlefield treatment.

The Army's new approach, as described by Lieut. Colonel Joseph D.
Goldstein, sets up a priority system that automatically gives
preference...